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Competitiveness of the EU from the viewpoint of the member states
Zíka, Tomáš ; Bič, Josef (advisor) ; Machytka, Daniel (referee)
This thesis focuses on the contribution of the member states to competitiveness and the contribution of the Lisbon strategy and the Europe 2020 strategy to this topic. The first chapter deals with the definition of competitiveness and with detailed measurement according to the World Economic Forum. In the second chapter, individual member countries in terms of competitiveness and the impact of the Lisbon strategy on the competitiveness of the EU are discussed. The last chapter outlines the concept of the Europe 2020 strategy and the current fulfillment of its goals.
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Current problems of eurozone with focus on international trade
Diviš, Jaroslav ; Melcher, Ota (advisor) ; Čajka, Radek (referee)
This thesis examines current problems in eurozone with special focus on international trade. An important part of the research will be the impact of the economic crisis which came to Europe in 2008. First chapter describes the development of eurozone's exports and imports between years 2001 and 2011. It analyses changes and trends in the commodity and territorial structure of eurozone's foreign trade. Some important issues which are linked to these topics are discussed in the first chapter as well, including current bargaining for bilateral free trade agreements. Second chapter deals with macroeconomic imbalances between the northern and the southern part of eurozone. It tries to identify reasons which caused this problem and assesses the role of euro in it. Finally, it offers some possible ways to adjustment between the both country groups. Third chapter concerns with the competitiveness of eurozone's members and measures how it has changed since the beginning of the crisis. In the second part of this chapter, selected weaknesses of the Italian competitiveness are stated together with a comparison with Germany. Final summary recapitulates previous chapters and presents the most important findings.
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The Comparative Analysis of Competitiveness of the Visegrad Group
Šteflová, Šárka ; Klosová, Anna (advisor) ; Dubravská, Pavla (referee)
The thesis deals with the analysis of competitiveness of the Visegrad Group. The aim of this thesis is to analyze the competitiveness of the Visegrad countries - the Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland and Slovakia. The countries will be examined in today's competitive environment within the Visegrad Group and the European Union. The analyze is based on data available from public sources and statistics. The work is divided into three chapters. The first part is devoted to the theoretical definition of competitiveness and methods of how to measure the competitiveness of the state. The second chapter introduces Visegrad Group and its common characteristics. The another part of the work is focused on the macroeconomic indicators - inflation, government debt and GDP per capita. The foreign trade and territorial and commodity structure of exports in the last ten years are also examined in this part. In the third chapter there is an analysis of the competitiveness based on investigation of labor productivity, labor costs, expenditures on research and development and tertiary education. In conclusion there is an evaluation of competitiveness of Visegrad Group based on the Global Competitiveness Index in 2011-2012.
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Globalisation and it´s impacts on labour market
Petríková, Monika ; Khelerová, Vladimíra (advisor) ; Vojtíšek, Zdeněk (referee)
The first chapter familiarizes with globalisation and defines it's basic fields of impacts. Within these impacts belong space-time compression, economic and environmental impacts, effects of globalisation on economic power of states and it also gives argumets for topic of inequality of economic and social growth. The second chapter describes impacts of globalisation on labour market. It concerns changes in international spatial division of labour and impacts on global unemployment, that is connected with technological progress and automation. It deals with topic of international migration and brain drain, that every economy has to face. It evaluates competitiveness of human capital of Czech Republic on the basis of basic and tertiary education, risks of brain drain in Czech Republic and computer skills of czech population. The third chapter summarizes conclusions from previous chapter and gives comments, observations and recommendations.
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The EU´s competitiveness and eastern enlargement
Danihlík, Tomáš ; Bič, Josef (advisor) ; Vondrušková, Barbora (referee)
The primary goal of my thesis is to analyse the implementation of the EU's competitiveness. First chapter is devoted to the characterization of competitiveness and its measurement. The content of the second chapter is the implementation of Lisbon Strategy, its evaluation, a description of the new Europe 2020 Strategy, evaluate its two years effectiveness, and the end of the chapter summarizes the contribution of the eastern enlargement of the EU's competitiveness and its future potential. The third chapter focuses on the analysis of the Czech-German economic relations in the background of the development of competitiveness.
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Car trains in International Rail Transport
Nejedlý, Vojtěch ; Zelený, Lubomír (advisor) ; Vorel, Miroslav (referee)
This thesis is focused on the segment of motorail services in the international long-distance passenger rail transport. It presents this service in the Czech Republic and also in the context of international passenger rail transport. The practical part is aimed at analyzing the potential and competitiveness of this service compared to road individual car transport and at exploring options of this product for practical usage by the final customer in choosing an appropriate service or means of transport for long-distance passenger transport in conditions of the Central European market.
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Influence of the economic crisis on the export performance of a Czech company
Pavlatová, Kateřina ; Čajka, Radek (advisor) ; Tlapa, Martin (referee)
The aim of this bachelor thesis is to analyse the influence of the economic crisis on the export performance and the direction of the company Preciosa Ornela, a.s. within the Preciosa Group. In the first chapter I describe the historical development of the glass industry in Northern Bohemia which leads up to the current situation. In the second chapter the company and its range of products are characterized. The third chapter is the key part of the bachelor thesis. It illustrates the company's influence in the field of social, ecology, energy, exchange rate policies and its market position. The thesis is focused on the decision process in particular aspects and its future perspectives.
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Factors affecting the competitiveness of selected enterprise in foreign markets
Němečková, Marta ; Černohlávková, Eva (advisor) ; Kopecký, Jan (referee)
This thesis describes the factors that influence competitiveness of the firm on the foreign market. In the first chapter there are stated the factors that comes from the competitiveness of the country, where the firm has its headquarter. There are analyzed three reports of international organizations and their results. The reaction of Czech republic is mentioned in form of export and competitiveness strategy. In the second chapter firm Linet Spol. s r.o. is introduced. This part focuses mainly on the factors inside the firm - structure, education, research and development. The last part analyses the factors the company had to deal with during the entry to the market of United States like the competitors and legal regulations of medical sector.
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Current business environment in Slovakia
Horváthová, Andrea ; Gullová, Soňa (advisor) ; Štemberk, Jan (referee)
The aim of my thesis is to analyze and describe the current business environment in Slovakia. Slovakia is a relatively small country, but it is also one of the most open economies in the world. It is therefore very important for the current government to support domestic as well as foreign entrepreneurs and thus improve its competitiveness. In order to achieve this, it is necessary to increase the volume of investment incentives, strengthening innovation policy and the development of support programs for small and medium enterprises. In addition to these measures, it is also important to work to remove barriers to business such as administrative burden, high levels of corruption and poor law enforcement.
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